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Lowest transportation noise by state

Residents exposed to transportation noise.

Share of residents estimated to be exposed to modeled road, rail, or aviation transportation noise at LAeq 60 dB or above. This is a national-scale average-day model, not a site measurement or a prediction of what a specific home sounds like.

  1. 1Vermont1.00%
  2. 2Idaho1.60%
  3. 3Maine1.60%
  4. 4Mississippi1.70%
  5. 5West Virginia1.70%
  6. 6New Hampshire1.80%
  7. 7Wyoming1.80%
  8. 8Arkansas1.90%
  9. 9Montana1.90%
  10. 10North Dakota1.90%
  11. 11South Carolina1.90%
  12. 12Alaska2.00%
  13. 13Oklahoma2.00%
  14. 14South Dakota2.00%
  15. 15Louisiana2.10%
  16. 16Georgia2.20%
  17. 17Kansas2.20%
  18. 18Tennessee2.30%
  19. 19Minnesota2.40%
  20. 20New Mexico2.40%
  21. 21Alabama2.50%
  22. 22Missouri2.50%
  23. 23North Carolina2.50%
  24. 24Iowa2.60%
  25. 25Colorado2.70%
  26. 26Michigan2.70%
  27. 27Ohio2.70%
  28. 28Nebraska2.80%
  29. 29Wisconsin2.80%
  30. 30Delaware2.90%
  31. 31Maryland2.90%
  32. 32Pennsylvania3.00%
  33. 33Rhode Island3.00%
  34. 34Indiana3.10%
  35. 35Nevada3.10%
  36. 36Virginia3.10%
  37. 37Florida3.20%
  38. 38Washington3.30%
  39. 39Kentucky3.50%
  40. 40Texas3.60%
  41. 41Oregon3.70%
  42. 42New Jersey4.00%
  43. 43Utah4.00%
  44. 44Hawaii4.40%
  45. 45Arizona4.60%
  46. 46New York4.80%
  47. 47Massachusetts5.10%
  48. 48District of Columbia5.80%
  49. 49Illinois5.80%
  50. 50California6.50%

Not ranked, because this measure is not published for them: Connecticut. Connecticut planning regions cannot be matched to this source’s legacy county geography and are deliberately unavailable.

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Source: BTS National Transportation Noise Map (2020), population aggregation by Seto & Huang. · How this is built